Evidence for God from Science Newsletter June, 2001

Greetings in the name of the Lord! This is the latest edition of the update for
the Evidence for God from Science website. There are several new additions to
the site, in both the apologetics and doctrine/theology departments.

I was recently e-mailed with a request to appear on a local radio program,
Lynnn Harper on the Pulse (San Diego, KSDO 1130 AM). The topic was to be
"The God Called Science." I guess the producer found the site through a search
for "God" and "science." It was basically a show asking if we put too much faith
in science. I thought that this would be a good opportunity for Ken Samples, the
Reasons To Believe philosopher, to respond and got him scheduled to do that
show. However, in going to their website, I discovered that they were doing a
program called "Who am I? Are we our bodies, our minds, our spirits." So I
talked to the producer of the show and will be speaking this Thursday, June 7
between 1:00 and 2:00 p.m. It is a great opportunity to share the Christian
faith. Please pray that I will be led by the Spirit.

The second annual Reasons To Believe Creation Conference, "Beyond Genesis 1"
will be held June 28-30 in Southern California. Last year's conference was
great. I hope that some of you can make it, so that I can meet you personally. I
will be helping out with questions or serving at the book table, so stop by on
one of the three days. You can sign up online (http://www.reasons.org) or by
calling (800) 482-7836).

Apologetics

In the tradition of Missing the
Obvious, there is a new page that examines the common atheist complaint
that God has not personally revealed Himself to them. The atheist charge is
somewhat valid, since God does not generally communicate with those who close
their spirit to His leading. However, the Bible says, and those who are
disciples of Jesus Christ can confirm, that God does reveal Himself to
believers, and we know Him through the Holy Spirit. Find out the answer to the
question, "Do you see your brain?"

In following links from the NASA website, I came across the website of an
artificial intelligence program that had won the Loebner Prize award (2000) for
the best imitation of human conversations by a computer program. The computer
program, called A.L.I.C.E., will engage you in conversation over the Internet.
It has learned what it knows through conversations with people, which are added
to its database. I decided to ask this program what it thought about God. To my
surprise, the program not only believes that God exists, but believes that He
created the universe. Not only that, but the program believes itself to be a
Protestant Christian and believes that Jesus is the Son of God. The new page has
been so popular that people from alicebot.org have come to GodAndScience.org
from their web stats to see what the fuss is about. See what A.L.I.C.E. has to
say about God and then ask it (her?) your own questions:

People who have no assurance of their salvation fear death. I know, since I was
afraid of death before I put my faith in Jesus Christ. If there is no God, then
death would be merely a ceasing of existence, with nothing to fear. However, if
Christianity is true, then those who do not believe should
fear death, since the fate of believers
and non-believers is quite different.

Three months ago I unveiled a new page challenging non-believers to design a
universe better than the one God created. So far, I have had only
one response - one which was very superficial and self-contradictory (from
"Smoke Some Grass"). Although I have received and seen many complaints about the
design of this universe, the atheists are not jumping at the opportunity to
offer a better design. Could it be that the task is more difficult than they
believe?

Evolution/Design

Contrary to the claims of a recent study, the multiregional model, which
states that modern humans evolved from several different groups of hominids
(including Neanderthals) that interbred at some point to produce modern humans,
fails to explain the genetics seen in modern humans, Neanderthals, and early
modern humans. The biblical model (stating that humans arose from one lineage
from a single geographic location) still fits all the data better than the
multiregional model.

"Adam lived 930 years and then he died." The mere assertion that humans could
live more than 900 years-as Genesis 5:5 states-seems, for many people, nothing
short of absurdity. The mention of long life spans in Genesis 5 hinders these
people from openly exploring the Christian faith. Unable to accept 900-year
human life spans, skeptics and others view the Bible as unreliable, a book of
human myth rather than divine revelation. However, recent studies in biology
provide an explanation of how God could have originally designed humans to live
much longer than they do now.

Alan Feduccia, an avian evolutionist who has shaken up the field of avian
evolution has made some new charges against fellow evolutionists who have
ignored the rather convincing evidence that falsifies one of the central dogmas
of evolution - that birds are descended from theropod dinosaurs. According to
Dr. Feduccia, "In spite of developmental evidence that overwhelmingly supports a
II-III-IV bird hand, in contrast to the I-II-III theropod hand [8,9],
paleontologists will do whatever is necessary to accommodate the cladogram."
Other evolutionists readily admit that "there are no other suitable candidates
for avian ancestors," which is why they are reluctant to accept the new data,
since, in essence, it falsifies evolution. Find out the latest controversies in
this updated article:

Doctrine

Several pages have been added in the prolife category. Having published a
page on the biblical basis for the prolife position several years ago, I finally
got around to writing a page on the scientific basis for the prolife position.
The page is a frank discussion about human development and exactly what abortion
destroys. Not recommended for the squeamish:

Two law professors published in May, 2001 a study that reports to show that
abortion has reduced crime in the United States by reducing fertility among
certain groups that are more prone to crime. According to the authors, "Given
that homicide rates of black youths are roughly nine times higher than those of
white youths, racial differences in the fertility effects of abortion are likely
to translate into greater homicide reductions." Abortion is now the politically
correct means of advocating legal eugenics among liberals. Groups like Planned
Parenthood are using abortion to reduce the fertility rates among minorities so
that "unwanted" children and not brought into the world.

Newsletter Info

"All ways lead to God" - An examination of this popular belief is shown to be
logically impossible.

The Incredible Genetics of "". A popular young earth ministry of has some rather
remarkable science and theology regarding the ability of organism to evolve
through genetic recombination. In essence, they believe that all the "kinds" of
organisms of Genesis were born with multiple alleles of Functional and physical units of heredity passed from parent to offspring. Genes are pieces of DNA, and most genes contain the information for making a specific protein.genes that were highly
diverse. For some reason, these Functional and physical units of heredity passed from parent to offspring. Genes are pieces of DNA, and most genes contain the information for making a specific protein.genes never segregated during the first couple
thousand years of the history of life on earth. However, after the flood, these
same Functional and physical units of heredity passed from parent to offspring. Genes are pieces of DNA, and most genes contain the information for making a specific protein.genes suddenly formed all the species we see on the earth, along with those
found only in the fossil record.

Those are the most recent updates and
changes since the last e-mail update. If you would like to see anything in
particular at Evidence for God from Science, let me know. I will give thanks to
Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Thy works, And my
soul knows it very well.

In Christ,Rich Deem

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